On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

> No, you do not need a mailbox for each mailing list.

Jeff,

   That's what I suspected; thank you for confirming this.

> No, not really.  When you created the mailing list on mailman, did you
> use the web interface or command line script "newlist"?

   The Web interface. And I read and followed the mailman-admin document,
accepting most defaults.

> If you used the command line script "newlist", it would have listed 10
> entries that need to be placed in the /etc/aliases file.  Once those
> are added to the file, the admin is supposed to run "newaliases" so
> that the mailman server is aware of the mailing lists.  Here is an
> example of what those ten lines would look like:
>
> ## cvsnotify mailing list
> cvsnotify:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe cvsnotify"
> cvsnotify-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe cvsnotify"
>
> These just need to be put on in the /etc/aliases file on the mailman server.

   Wow! That's great. I'll pass this on to my ISP but they'll probably need
to wait for the Mailman-guru admin to return from vacation.

Thanks very much for the information,

Rich


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